Improvement in awnings



1. BOYLE.

Awnings.

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JOHN BOYLE, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN AWNINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,966, dated February 18, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN BOYLE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Tension-Rod for Awnings, &c., of which the following is a specification.

Figure is a top View of my improved extension-rod. Fig. 2 is a detail cross-section of the same taken through the line as m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail cross-section of the same taken through the line g Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reierence indicate corresponding parts. 1 The invention consists in the mode of applying tension-rods to awnings.

A is the main rod, which is made of the desired length, and to the ends of which are attached the sockets or couplings B, to which the brackets are attached. To the sockets B are attached, or upon them are formed, two eyes, 0. D are two strengthening or straining-rods, which are passed through the eyes 0, and are drawn taut by nuts screwed upon one or both their ends. E are bridges, one or more of which are used, according to the length of the rod A. The bridges E are made substantially 'in the manner and for the purpose described.

J OHN BOYLE. WVitnesses:

JAM'ES T. GRAHAM, T. B. MosHER, 

